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Most higher level educators are now back in the classroom teaching in a face-to-face learning environment. However, it is important that educators continue to nurture and grow the new technical…

As engineering academics work through this challenging academic year resulting from the ongoing worldwide Novel Coronavirus pandemic, the Engineers Ireland Academic society hosted its second webinar on the 28th October…

As a lecturer in the Department of Computing at GMIT, I have used various assessment methods/ practices over the years for blended modules and for the traditional face to face…

As engineering academics prepare for the new academic year, the Engineers Ireland Academic society hosted a free webinar on September 3rd, on the topic of Remote and virtual laboratories –…

Dr Carina Ginty and Annette Cosgrove (GMIT Teaching and Learning Office and the DigitalEd.ie project team) have prepared a guide to help support lecturers plan for the delivery of an…

GMIT’s onsite, flexible learning religious studies programmes are currently being redeveloped into and recast as four new blended learning programmes. The challenge of successfully transitioning the content of an onsite-delivered,…

The Digital Ed webinar series was an action-packed offering of workshops outlining various aspects of using digital media in teaching and learning. Here I will outline my experience based on…

What is the Ipevo visualiser? The Ipevo visualiser is a tool that allows you to capture documents, live or pre -recorded drawings of graphs or mathematical worked examples, textbooks, artwork…

To enhance the students learning experience and their ability to achieve the desired learning outcomes from a module, technology enhanced tools can be very effective. In this blog post I…

What is Flipgrid? Flipgrid is an online video discussion platform used to create and share short video recordings. The educator creates a “grid” which is like a discussion board and…